Robust object tracking based on local discriminative sparse representation

Abstract

Despite much success in the application of sparse representation to object tracking, most of the existing sparse-representation-based tracking methods are still not robust enough for challenges such as pose variations, illumination changes, occlusions, and background distractions. In this paper, we propose a robust object-tracking algorithm via local discriminative sparse representation. The key idea in our method is to develop what we believe is a novel local discriminative sparse representation method for object appearance modeling, which can be helpful to overcome issues such as appearance variations and occlusions. Then a robust tracker based on the local discriminative sparse appearance model is proposed to track the object over time. Additionally, an online dictionary update strategy is introduced in our approach for further robustness. Experimental results on challenging sequences demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed method.